The focus of the book kicks in after 17 95, which is when revolutionary france adopts the frankas national currency. Thereis some kind of tight connection between regulating currency and regulating the economy more broadly. The colonial system was a particular way of mobilizing domestic resources but for the benefit of the metropole. But you you needed to have the fiscal and the monetary instruments.
Olúfẹmi Táíwò guest hosts an interview with Daniela Gabor and Ndongo Samba Sylla on how financial power has shaped the global economic order from colonialism through Bretton Woods, the Washington Consensus, and today's Wall Street Consensus.
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